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Method of making labels for containers
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Inventors: Instance, David J.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Weston; Caleb
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch
A method of continuously producing a series of tubular labelling sleeves, which method comprises (a) printing on each of the upper and lower outer faces of a flat tube or resilient material a sequence of desired images, the image on the upper face of the flat tube being printed in register with the image on the lower face of the flat tube; (b) removing the longitudinal edge portions of the flat tube from each of the two sides of the tube; (c) forming at regular intervals a seal across the width of the resilient material so as to seal together the upper and lower sides of the tube, steps (b) and (c) being performed in either order; and (d) severing the tube across its width along the resultant seal thereby to form a tubular sleeve. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Referring to the drawing, a flat tube 2 of resilient plastics material, suitably of low density polyethylene, 70 thick, is passed through a first printing station 4 where information which is to be displayed on one half of the label is printed from a first printing roller 6 on to the upper face 8 of the tube, and then the tube is passed through a second printing station 10 where information which is to be displayed on the other half of the label is printed from a second printing roller 12 on to the lower face 14 of the tube, the image printed on the lower face of the tube being printed in register with the image on the upper face of the tube.
Downstream of the second printing station at 16, the longitudinal edge portions of the tube are removed, typically by use of a die cutting tool, from each of the two sides of the tube to give a separate upper layer and lower layer which are subsequently sealed together across their width at regular intervals.
Suitably the upper and lower webs are sealed by a heat-sealing means 18 located downstream of the cutting means 16.
Finally, each label is severed from its neighbour by cutting along the length of the heat-seal, the sealing of the webs and the subsequent cutting through the seal being arranged so that the webs on either side of the cut remain sealed together substantially across the width of the tube.
The resultant tubular labelling sleeves 24 are collected at 22 and stored for subsequent use.
In an alternative arrangement, instead of performing the step of heat-sealing of the two layers and the step of severing of the heat seal along its length as two operations, one after the other, the two said steps are performed simultaneously as one operation.
Thus the upper and lower layers are heat-sealed and at the same time the heat seal which is formed is severed along its length.
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Metal Working 
